Man is the best creature in creation.
Still, there are some people in our society who are born unusually.
In today's episode, we will see the top 10 unusual people in the world, whom you will
be surprised to see.
Rachael Farrokh is the thinnest woman in the world.
She has been fighting a battle with anorexia for 10 years long.
Now, an extreme decline in her health has her determined to seek treatment and share
her story with the world.
Farrokh was a beautiful, talented, healthy, and smart girl.
As her illness took hold, Farrokh went from weighing a healthy 125 pounds.
Now she is so thin and you can see her bones through her skin.
She spends her days and nights in a hospital bed inside her home.
Claudio Vieira de Oliveira is a Brazilian motivational speaker and accountant.
He was born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenital, a rare syndrome that affects the
muscular system.
Claudio was born with a complicated body structure due to arthrogryposis syndrome.
He was born with his head positioned upside down and with severely deformed limbs.
He was also born with muscular atrophy in his leg muscles, arms stuck to his chest and
his head turned all the way back.
Niah Selway can’t go swimming, soak in a hot bath or enjoy a shower after a stressful
day’s work.
She is allergic to water.
Even sweating brings the 19-year-old out in a painful rash.
Niah Selway is allergic to water at any temperature.
It is a condition she's lived with since she was 14.
She suffers from an extremely rare skin disorder called Aquagenic Urticaria.
She has to wash, but showering is a painful experience and she can only do it for a minute
at a time.
She can't go anywhere for about two hours.
Mandy Sellars is a British woman with a rare genetic mutation that has resulted in extraordinary
growth in both of her legs.
In 2006, some doctors diagnosed Mandy as having Proteus syndrome.
It is a very rare condition thought to affect only 120 people worldwide.
Mandy was born with abnormally large and misshapen legs and feet, which continued to grow at
a disproportionate rate.
When she was born, doctors were unsure if she would survive very long.
However, she was walking at about 18 months.
Gary Turner is a sideshow performer.
He holds the current Guinness World Record for the stretchiest skin.
It is caused by a serious form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
On October 29, 1999, in Los Angeles, he stretched the skin on his abdomen to a total length
of 6.25 inches, and he made a record.
He participated in various events in America and amazed the audience with his performance.
He is an actor but not a regular performer.
He performed in a short film and it was very popular.
Wim Hof is a Dutch motivational speaker and extreme athlete noted for his ability to withstand
low temperatures.
He previously held a Guinness World Record for swimming under ice and prolonged full-body
contact with ice.
He holds a record for a barefoot half marathon on ice and snow.
He called himself the Iceman because he could tolerate freezing water like normal water.
Hof markets a regimen called the Wim Hof Method, which involves willpower, exposure to cold
water, and breathing techniques.
Zion Clark was born without legs because of a rare condition called Caudal Regression
Syndrome.
One in every 100,000 children is born with a congenital condition each year.
Zion Clark is one such man who has defied all odds, time and again, to set Guinness
World Records not once but three times.
He set the record for being the world’s fastest man on two hands on February 15, 2021,
when he walked 20m on his hands in just 4.78 seconds.
Now, he is a wrestler and a professional track and field athlete.
Virsaviya Borun-Goncharova was born with an extremely rare condition that caused her rib
cage and abdominal muscles to not form properly.
Her heart developed outside of her chest.
The condition only affects about one in a million people.
It doesn’t cause her any pain in day-to-day life but does leave her heart exposed as it
lies just below the surface of the skin.
Sometimes, she needs to use an oxygen concentrator when she is physically active to maintain
her oxygen saturation.
Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel are American conjoined twins.
They are having two heads joined to one torso, and they are highly symmetric for conjoined
twins.
They are giving the appearance of having a single body without marked variation from
typical proportions.
Each has a heart, stomach, spine, pair of lungs, and spinal cord.
Each twin controls one arm and one leg.
When they were infants, learning to crawl, walk, and clap required cooperation.
They can eat and write separately and simultaneously.
Huang Chuncai is a Chinese man who became notable for being "China's Elephant man".
He has an extreme case of neurofibromatosis, which caused such large tumors on his face
that they completely distorted his features.
Huang is the eldest of three children and was born into poverty.
His father earned money by selling noodles in the local market.
Huang's parents first noticed signs of his illness when he was four years old.
By the time he was 31, his tumor weighed 15 kg.